Vending machine



A) rA'. FAGEN. 'VENDIING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED ,1PR.16, 1921.

1,412,464. Patented Apr. 11, 1922 AbmhmAgen UNITEDA STATES PA TENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM A.YFAGEN, OF MINNEAPOLS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ZLOTNEK DAVIS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

VENDING MACHINE.

Y Application filed April 16,

To all whomy it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM A. FAGEN, a citizen of the United States, resident of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending Machines, of which the following is a speciiicati0n.

The object of my invention is to provide a vending machine or apparatus adapted particularly for use in vehicles, such as street cars, for delivering candy or gum or other articles upon the deposit of a coin.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following detailed description.

1n the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a street car showing my invention applied thereto,

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of the coin-controlled mechanism in its normal position.

ln the drawing, 2 represents a portion of a street car of any ordinary or preferred construction, having the usualside seats 3, windows 4 and frame 5 between the windows, wherein the usual push-button 6 for signalling the driver of the car is arranged. ln the top of the car, preferably at the forward end, I provide a suitable container 7 having a hopper bottom 8 and adapted to contain candy, gum, or other articles, preferably in round or spherical form. Pipes 9 and 9a lead from the container and extend along each side of the car above the window (shown only on one side) at suflicient inclination to cause the articles to roll by gravity down the pipe from the container. Vertical extensions 10 are provided, depending between the windows and secured to the frame, into which extensions the articles in the pipe 9 will flow and drop by gravity to the lower ends thereof. At the bottom of each extension is a box 11 having a continuation 12 of the extension 10 leading to a chamber 13 at the bottom of the box that is open at the front for the convenient removal of the article vended.

A slide 14 having an opening 15 therein is mounted to move transversely in the eX- tension 12 and normally cut olf the flow of articles therethrough. When the slide is pushed in until this opening 15 registers with the passage in the pipe., the articles may drop by gravity through the opening Specification of Letters Patent.

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and roll down the pipe to the chamber 13. A. spring 16 normally holds the slide in a retracted position. A finger 17 is mounted on the slide to be projected across the eXtension 12 between the lower article therein and the one next above, vso that when the slide is moved in only one article will be delivered.

A bracket 18 is provided beneath the outer end of the slide and a coin chute 19 is positioned to deliver a coin upon said bracket between the end of the slide and a plunger 2O that is normally retracted by a spring. 21. When this plunger is pressed in, the coin will be gripped between it and the end of the slide 14 and will temporarily form a connection between the plunger and slide to move thelatter across the passage in extension 12 and permit the discharge of one of the articles therein. A stationary finger 22 is mounted on the wall of the extension 12 in position to engage the Vcoin and eject it, as indicated in dotted lines, when the plunger and slide have been moved inwardly to a predetermined point. With this device .a passenger entering a car may deposit a coin in the chute 19, thereby rendering the device operative and upon forcing` in the plunger, one of the articles in the vending receptacle will be released and discharged into the chamber below.

rlhe box in which the coin-controlled'device is located is preferably positioned, as shown, linst above the signal push-button between trie windows, where the passenger can easily obtain access to it for the purpose of depositing a coin or for removing the vended article.

ln various ways the details of construction herein shown and described may be modified and still be within the scope of my invention. y

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination, with a street car wall, of a container mounted in one end thereof and having gravity feed pipes leading therefrom lengthwise of the car for the delivery of spherical or circular articles placed in said container, vertical pipes depending from said feed pipe to receive the articles therefrom and depending between the windows of the car, and a coin controlled delivery mechanism provided at the lower end of each vertical pipe and made operative by the deposit of a coin for relnism provided at the lower end of each Vertical pipe and made operative by the deposit of a coin for releasing a predetermined number of articles in said pipes, a container 10 adapted to be mountedin the street car above said Windows and gravity feeding means adapted to deliver articles placed in said container to said vertical pipes.

In Witness Whereo'f, I have hereunto set l5 my hand this 11th day of April 1921.

' ABRAHAM A. FAGEN; 

